Increasing collocated people's awareness of the mobile user's activities: A field trial of social displays

Pradthana Jarusriboonchai, Aris Malapaschas, Thomas Olsson, Kaisa Väänänen

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    Abstract

    Many activities that have traditionally been performed with different dedicated physical artifacts are now done with personal mobile devices. Consequently, the privacy of mobile interfaces has hampered social observability and chances for serendipitous interactions. For example, reading an electronic newspaper with a mobile device does not allow the surrounding people to be similarly aware of the reader's activity as traditional newspapers. Social displays are additional displays on mobile devices providing the surrounding people with light-weight cues about the activities of the device user. We implemented a prototype that reveals the user's current active application and presents its name on an e-ink display on the backside of a mobile device. We conducted a ten-day field trial with 13 participants using the prototype. The results show that the prototype was able to increase awareness of users' mobile activities and occasionally triggered interactions with others, without significantly violating the sense of privacy.

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationCSCW '16 - Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing
    PublisherACM
    Pages1691-1702
    Number of pages12
    ISBN (Print)9781450335928
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 27 Feb 2016
    Publication typeA4 Article in conference proceedings
    EventACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing -
    Duration: 1 Jan 2000 → …

    Conference

    ConferenceACM conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
    Period1/01/00 → …

    Keywords

    • Activity awareness
    • Backside display
    • Collocated interaction
    • Face-to-face interaction
    • Field study
    • Personal interface
    • Social display
    • Social interaction
    • User trial

    Publication forum classification

    • Publication forum level 2

    ASJC Scopus subject areas

    • Software
    • Computer Networks and Communications
    • Human-Computer Interaction

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